[indetrucks]

I cannot believe this is one of the most popular threads in a Pontiac Forum.

I have no idea NASCAR was so popular. The best part about NASCAR is Days of Thunder.

[GpFreak]

Originally Posted by indetrucks

I cannot believe this is one of the most popular threads in a Pontiac Forum.

I have no idea NASCAR was so popular. The best part about NASCAR is Days of Thunder.

If you're trying to relate NASCAR to movies I would have say it's "The Last American Hero" with "The Dude" Jeff Brigdes.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JY3k1wEBNc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpqYH-V-5bQ

[ho428]

Originally Posted by GpFreak

If you're trying to relate NASCAR to movies I would have say it's "The Last American Hero" with "The Dude" Jeff Brigdes.

Nah, Brewster Baker and the six pack.

[Racer81x]

Nah, I would say talledga nights, or what ever that ricky bobby moive is called, because it is just like nascar has become ever since that jack wagon brian france took over: a big joke

[63Banshee]

Injustice is a popular topic and the point of the Lobby Forum is off topic discussion. Plenty of Pontiac only forums to choose from here if that’s your thing and NASCAR isn’t. It's obvious it isn't as anyone who knows anything about NASCAR would never place "best" and "Days of Thunder" in the same sentence.

[63Banshee]

There ya go

[KS circutguy]

Agree, a bunch of soccer dads driving in circles.

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[zeebo]

kenny rogers' six pack movie and days of thunder...hahahhahaha!

[Alvin]

It's completely bogus media statements like this that continues "the Danica love machine" momentum... http://youtu.be/WHcQ5wRZ9iU

"Danica Patrick is the most successful woman to get behind the wheel of a race car..." What?!!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_4705287.html

There are several women MotorSports Competitors & Champions - past & present - that'd agree with "King Richard" as to Danica's lack of demonstrated and/or proven race winning ability...except for the one (1) race win...

[KS circutguy]

Put a ring on it

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[KS circutguy]

King Richard. Lol please.

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[KS circutguy]

Lol funny..

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[KS circutguy]

I always wondered who that burger king guy was...

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[The Boss]

But....what happens when Jimmy Johnson gets his 7th championship? Does it get an * like the home run records during the roid years since NASCAR monkeyed with the points system every ****ing year???

[The Champ]

Originally Posted by The Boss

But....what happens when Jimmy Johnson gets his 7th championship? Does it get an * like the home run records during the roid years since NASCAR monkeyed with the points system every ****ing year???

It should...

The old points scheme worked fine. It promoted both winning races and consistency.

Petty won 7 Championships and in those years won 93 of his 200 Cup wins. He also had 4 seasons where he had 10 or more wins that he didn't win the Championship.

Example - 1970 he had 18 wins and finished 4th. Bobby Isaac won that year with only 11 wins. Bobby had 32 top 5's compared to Richards's 27. Bobby also finished a lot more races - completing 11,253 miles of competition compared to Richard's 9,813.

[hada76]

those were the glory days...not unusual to see a guy go flag to flag or put a few laps on the runner up.

http://www.realclearsports.com/blogn...tona%20500.jpg

[The Champ]

Danica is very positive that she won't race Indy again, unless she does...

While Kurt Busch is close to a deal to run the Indy 500 this year, his teammate, Danica Patrick, says she won’t be running the race again anytime soon.

Patrick, who finished third in the 2009 Indy 500 and has five top-10 finishes in the event, said Monday that she is no longer interested in running the race at Indy and the Indy-Charlotte double. Patrick and Busch are teammates at Stewart-Haas Racing.

“I love the Indy 500,” she said. “It’s an amazing event and everyone should go see it sometime, but as far as me as a driver, I’m not seeking it out anymore. I’m not saying I wouldn’t take the opportunity if I felt like I was in a position to win a race, but after last year when it didn’t work out, I’m no longer trying to make that happen.”

Patrick, a former IndyCar star, moved to NASCAR part time in 2010 and ran the full Sprint Cup schedule for the first time last year. She tried to put together a deal to run the Indy-Charlotte double last season, but it didn’t work out.

Patrick said on the Sprint Media Tour Monday that she won’t attempt to run Indy again — unless it’s an opportunity she can’t turn down.

“I feel like last year I kinda made a final effort going for last year’s race and when it didn’t happen and it wasn’t the right thing to do for me as a driver, I really feel like I have gone far enough now without doing it that I feel like I’m not seeking it out anymore,” she said. “I wouldn’t want anything to take away from what I’ve done there.

“I’m not saying I wouldn’t do it, I’m saying I would only do it if I really felt like I had an opportunity to win. At this point in time, my sole focus is Cup, and it takes that. It really takes the sole focus; it’s unbelievable how much it takes to compete at this level. So I’ve stopped making an active effort to doing (Indy).”

After winning the pole for the Daytona 500, Patrick struggled last season, slumping to 27th in the final Cup standings. She begins her second full Cup season this year with teammates Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick and Busch.

She says she has to have her "focus" on Cup. Her boss, Tony Stewart, managed to do the Memorial Day double in 1999 and 2001 and finish 4th in the points in '99 (his rookie season) and 2nd in the points in '01.

In '99 Tony finished 9th at Indy and 4th at Charlotte. In '01 Tony was 6th at Indy and 3rd at Charlotte.

Danica doesn't have what it takes to actually RACE 1100 miles in one day.

[Sirrotica]

The touring princess would make a good politician, she's pro to both sides of a subject.


Just as most politicians, talks a lot and doesn't really say anything...............

[Sirrotica]

I've gotten second place because someone else was doing the creative rules interpretation and they full well knew they were cheating.

Upon pointing the fact out to the track owner that the tires were a half inch over the 7 inch maximum allowed, he agreed with me they were oversize. Having taken second place I asked him what he was going to do about it, the reply, "I'll tell him by next week he had better have the right tires on his car".

That slap on the wrist is hardly sufficient when your car is legal and your going home with second place.

If NASCAR would take the win away from the cheaters then it might promote following the rules to the letter. Any way you slice it it's morally wrong if you win, you did it under false pretenses. I built my own car and as you can see by the picture in my signature it's possible to win with a car within the rules. My car was examined almost each week by the officials because someone thought it was illegal, upon examination every time it was deemed legal. The feeling of being completely legal and besting your competition, PRICELESS!!!

It takes more time, drive and skill to be within the rules and win, than it does to cheat.
Something my parents taught me, cheaters never prosper.

Anyone that says cheating is racing, doesn't have the right attitude in their life.

[Racer81x]

Agreed, gotten 2nd to a cheating bastard several times, guys at one track in tech don't know crap and the guy never gets caught, it's getting very old.